Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Tories were planning in Empress Hall, Prime Minister Attlee huddled with Labor's top brass, pondering the question of whether to call a general election now or wait till next spring. Last week they got to an answer. As some observers had predicted (TIME, Oct. 10), the decision was to let things ride until spring. By that time, Labor hopes to repair some of the political damage which it suffered in the devaluation crisis. This week Attlee will put before Parliament a new economic program including reduction in government expenditures and other measures which, as Deputy Prime...
...unfortunate Dunster had to wait a quarter-hour at the start of the game for their eleventh player to arrive...
During the communal riots in Delhi, a Moslem restaurateur saw a fellow Moslem slaughtered in front of the shop. He went to the phone and got Nehru directly. "Wait ten minutes!" cried the Prime Minister. "I'll be right down." In ten minutes, Nehru was on the scene with truckfuls of police. From the middle of the street, bent over a map of the district, he directed the cleanup of looters...
...defeated only after colonialism goes, and after the living standards of Asia's masses are raised. This is where American abundance and generosity could come in. Nehru recognizes the need for U.S. food, capital and technical aid in India and elsewhere. It would not be wise to wait until Communism in Southeast Asia reached the Chinese or Greek stage where it must be fought with guns...
...base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...